How Economic Trends Are Reshaping Restaurants
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Brian Laird on WNYC, and we have a few more hours than they have in France before it's really the weekend. |
| 0:15.8 | But since it's going to be the weekend, you might want to eat out, right? |
| 0:19.2 | And we're going to end today with your calls. |
| 0:21.5 | If you work in the restaurant business on what the trends are now that reflect realities |
| 0:27.9 | in society or in the economy, 212-433 WNYC, 433-9-6-9-2, or for that matter, just in taste. Basically, we're asking restaurant workers, |
| 0:41.1 | restaurant owners, what's new at your restaurant that reflects something that's going on right now |
| 0:48.0 | in terms of what people like to eat or how much money people have to spend on what? |
| 0:53.2 | 212-433-9692. |
| 0:57.3 | We're thinking, for example, of stories recently |
| 1:00.4 | about more restaurants offering smaller portion options |
| 1:04.0 | because so many people are on OZempic or other GLP1 drugs. |
| 1:09.0 | Also, if tariffs are affecting what you serve or what dishes cost or other GLP1 drugs. Also, if tariffs are affecting what you serve or what dishes cost or other ways that patrons |
| 1:16.1 | are experiencing the economy right now, 212-433 WNYC, 212, 433-9692. |
| 1:26.6 | Got it? |
| 1:27.1 | It's an invitation for anybody who works in the restaurant business, worker or owner, on what |
| 1:31.8 | trends you're seeing now at your establishment that reflect either social realities or |
| 1:38.0 | economic realities or even just what foods are tending to be hot right now or what kinds |
| 1:43.2 | of dishes or drinks. |
| 1:44.1 | 212-433. WNYC-212. what foods are tending to be hot right now or what kinds of dishes or drinks. |
| 1:51.8 | 212-433, WNYC, 212, 433-969.2. |
| 1:53.3 | And I'll give those examples again. |
| 1:59.2 | More restaurants offering smaller portion options because so many people are on GLP1 drugs. |
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